DataStax Driver for Apache Cassandra
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A modern, feature-rich <https://github.com/datastax/python-driver#features>
_ and highly-tunable Python client library for Apache Cassandra (2.1+) and
DataStax Enterprise (4.7+) using exclusively Cassandra's binary protocol and Cassandra Query Language v3.
The driver supports Python 3.8 through 3.12.
Note: DataStax products do not support big-endian systems.
Synchronous <http://datastax.github.io/python-driver/api/cassandra/cluster.html#cassandra.cluster.Session.execute>
_ and Asynchronous <http://datastax.github.io/python-driver/api/cassandra/cluster.html#cassandra.cluster.Session.execute_async>
_ APIsSimple, Prepared, and Batch statements <http://datastax.github.io/python-driver/api/cassandra/query.html#cassandra.query.Statement>
_Connection pooling <http://datastax.github.io/python-driver/api/cassandra/cluster.html#cassandra.cluster.Cluster.get_core_connections_per_host>
_Automatic reconnection <http://datastax.github.io/python-driver/api/cassandra/policies.html#reconnecting-to-dead-hosts>
_load balancing <http://datastax.github.io/python-driver/api/cassandra/policies.html#load-balancing>
_ and retry policies <http://datastax.github.io/python-driver/api/cassandra/policies.html#retrying-failed-operations>
_Concurrent execution utilities <http://datastax.github.io/python-driver/api/cassandra/concurrent.html>
_Object mapper <http://datastax.github.io/python-driver/object_mapper.html>
_Connecting to DataStax Astra database (cloud) <https://docs.datastax.com/en/developer/python-driver/latest/cloud/>
_Installation through pip is recommended::
$ pip install cassandra-driver
For more complete installation instructions, see the
installation guide <http://datastax.github.io/python-driver/installation.html>
_.
The documentation can be found online here <http://datastax.github.io/python-driver/index.html>
_.
A couple of links for getting up to speed:
Installation <http://datastax.github.io/python-driver/installation.html>
_Getting started guide <http://datastax.github.io/python-driver/getting_started.html>
_API docs <http://datastax.github.io/python-driver/api/index.html>
_Performance tips <http://datastax.github.io/python-driver/performance.html>
_cqlengine (originally developed by Blake Eggleston and Jon Haddad, with contributions from the
community) is now maintained as an integral part of this package. Refer to
documentation here <http://datastax.github.io/python-driver/object_mapper.html>
_.
See CONTRIBUTING.md <https://github.com/datastax/python-driver/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst>
_.
While originally written for the Java driver, users may reference the Cassandra error handling done right blog <https://www.datastax.com/blog/cassandra-error-handling-done-right>
_ for resolving error handling scenarios with Apache Cassandra.
Please report any bugs and make any feature requests on the
JIRA <https://datastax-oss.atlassian.net/browse/PYTHON>
_ issue tracker.
If you would like to contribute, please feel free to open a pull request.
Your best options for getting help with the driver are the
mailing list <https://groups.google.com/a/lists.datastax.com/forum/#!forum/python-driver-user>
_
and the DataStax Community <https://community.datastax.com>
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